Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas shut down a bake sale last Wednesday in which cookies were offered at different prices, according to the buyer's gender or race.
The SMU Young Conservatives of Texas organized the sale and members said it was intended as a protest against the use of affirmative action in college admissions condoned by the Supreme Court in the University of Michigan case decided in June.
A lower court banned Texas universities from using race as a factor in admissions in 1996.
The bake sale's sign listed the prices for a cookie: $1 for white men, 75 cents for white women, 50 cents for Hispanics and 25 cents for blacks.
Similar sales have been held by College Republican chapters at colleges in at least five other states since February.
A black student filed a complaint with SMU, saying the sale was offensive. SMU officials said they halted the event after 45 minutes because it created an unsafe situation and because the group lacked permission to be selling goods outside the student center.
"This was not an issue about free speech," Tim Moore, director of the SMU student center, said in a story for Thursday's edition of The Dallas Morning News. "It was really an issue where we had a hostile environment being created."
The sale drew a crowd outside the student center and several students subsequently engaged in a shouting match.
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